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Wednesday, 27 March 2013

In the new age where phones and computers rule the roost, there seem to be a few social failings in society and in whatever community we are in, whether it be school or the workplace. But what are the social failings associated with the internet and media in general.

Well first of all we create a divide between friends, the digital era has led people to completely ignore each other, instead they just finish the level on angry birds or text their mates. This unsociable nature caused by technology reverberates throughout cities across the world, the mentality that it is better to text than to speak seems to be becoming prevalent. We are losing the idea about what we are on earth for.

We need to realise there are some things that a mobile phone can't sort out and indeed there are some things that are more important than getting a higher score on doodle jump.

Interaction is an important part of growing up and finding friends and believe it or not some friends may not be made on the internet, but the ones who you can approach with any problem are the friends you need.

As Muhammad Ali once said "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything".

Saturday, 14 July 2012

John Terry has been cleared of all charges after an accusation was thrown by Anton Ferdinand. John Terry denied all charges that he had racially abused Ferdinand at Loftus road. However it was obvious that Terry would do that. Any lawyer would recognise that this kind of thing is hard to prove. In a way this shows a flaw in the justice system or rather a point where a stalemate occurs. It was Ferdinand's word against Terry's and it seems that the phrase 'innocent until proven guilty' shines through again.

It seems that Terry's main defence was that he did say it however it was in response to something he thought he heard Ferdinand say. The FA will continue an investigation so Terry must be weary, this shows a sign that the FA have major intent in cutting out racism.

The magistrate Howard Riddle said he had 'heard plenty of evidence to suggest Mr Terry was not racist' however it seems that it might hasve been more to do with the fact that he didn't hear enough convincing evidence.

Here is the accusations and evidence:

On the pitch

The game took place at QPR's Loftus Road ground in London on 23 October
2011.

Chelsea were down to nine men in the game, and Mr Ferdinand and Mr Terry
began trading insults over a penalty claim, the court heard.

The QPR defender said he was angry at Mr Terry trying to get a penalty and
"he barged me in the back for no reason".

Mr Ferdinand told the court Mr Terry insulted him with sexual swear words and
made a gesture as if to say his breath smelled.

"I was very angry and I was upset”

John Terry

Mr Ferdinand said he asked how Mr Terry could say that,
because "you shagged your team-mate's missus" and he then swore back at the
Chelsea player.

This was a reference to Mr Terry's alleged affair with Wayne Bridge's
ex-girlfriend, Vanessa Perroncel.

The court heard that Mr Ferdinand then jogged down the pitch, while making a
fist gesture, intended for Mr Terry, to imply sex.

It also heard that Mr Terry has accepted how, when both players were around
the half-way line of the pitch, he used the words "f***ing black c**t".

But the court also heard that Mr Terry maintains he was only sarcastically
repeating what Mr Ferdinand incorrectly thought he had said.

During Mr Terry's testimony in Westminster Magistrates Court, he said that as
the pair traded insults, he heard Mr Ferdinand using this racist phrase.

Mr Terry told the court he thought Mr Ferdinand was accusing him of using the
phrase.

"I was very angry and I was upset. I replied 'a black c***, you f***ing
kn**head'".

"I said 'No, that never came out of my mouth'. Then Ashley Cole popped his
head round and said: 'Yeah, didn't you say that to me?' I said: 'I didn't say
that at all'."

Mr Ferdinand told the court: "It's handbags, innit - it's what happens on the
pitch," and said he shook hands with Mr Terry.

Video footage

Later still after the match, Mr Ferdinand's then-girlfriend showed him a clip
of the exchange with Mr Terry, which was posted on YouTube. It was then that he
believed Mr Terry had used a racist term.

Mr Ferdinand told the court that if he had realised this at the time he would
have told officials.

He said: "I would have been obviously very hurt and I probably wouldn't have
reacted at the time because, being a professional, you can't do that. I probably
would have let the officials know what happened and dealt with it after the
game.

"When someone brings your colour into it, it takes it to another level and
it's very hurtful."

Terry's statement

Mr Terry made a statement to police last November, in which he said he was
offended by the accusation that he had used racist language.

He said his words to Mr Ferdinand were meant to make it clear that he had not
used a racist insult.

The statement read: "Whilst footballers are used to industrial language,
using racist terms is completely unacceptable whatever [the] situation.

"I was completely taken aback by this remark as I have never been accused of
something like that and I did not take his remark lightly at all, and took
strong offence to his suggestion."

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Evernote is a piece of software and services designed for making notes and remembering things and archiving. (Remebering things through your computer or smartphone).

I used it for making notes on our English book 'Brighton Rock'

A "note" can be a piece of text..., a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. (I found this particularly interesting!). Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. In my opinion it is very clever but I don't know when I would use it.